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Liu Gang
Liu Gang
Liu Gang in Boston (1996)
Born (1961-01-30) 30 January 1961 (age 63)
Jilin, People's Republic of China
NationalityChina, United States
Alma materUniversity of Science and Technology of China
Peking University
Columbia University
New York University
Known forTheoretical Design of J-8II
1986 Student Demonstrations
Tiananmen Square protests
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, Physics
Financial analysis, Politics Computer science
Social activism, Literature
InstitutionsCitibank
Morgan Stanley
WebsiteLiu Gang's Blogger
Liu Gang
File:Liu Gang in June 13th, 1989.jpg
Liu Gang in June 13th, 1989.
Traditional Chinese劉剛
Simplified Chinese刘刚
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLiú Gāng

Liu Gang (born January 30, 1961) is a Chinese scientist who studies mathematical model, computer science, and theoretical physics. He also was one of the most visible of the student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Liu holds a M.A. in computer science from Columbia University and a M.A. in physics from Peking University. After exile to the United States in 1996, Liu studied technology and physics at New Jersey's Bell Labs. Liu is currently employed at Morgan Stanley as a Wall Street IT analyst.[1]

As a major leader of the Chinese democracy movement, Liu Gang is a friend of fellow activists Wang Dan and Wuer Kaixi.[2]

Biography

Liu Gang was born in 1961, Liaoyuan, Jilin. He was a politically active student at the Peking University department of physics, organizing "Democracy Salons" at his school, which later Wang Dan had success his position. Before that, Liu was an undergraduate student from University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, at there he influence the thoughts of Fang Lizhi.[3] During the 1989 peaceful protest, he organized and joined the movement's organizing body as a graduated student from Peking University. As a result, after the Tiananmen Square protests, he immediately became the "third most wanted" on the list of 21 fugitives issued.[4] Liu went into hiding but was arrested on June 15 the same year, and sentenced to six years imprisonment as the "guilty" of overthrow the Communist Party of China in Qincheng Prison in 1991.[5][6][7][8][9][10] After being released in 1996, he continued to protest and claim for the Human rights in China and organized the underground movement for the Democracy in China.[11][12] After he came to the United States, Liu Gang is pursuing his studies at Columbia University in New York City.[13][14][15] He continued support the aboard Chinese democracy movements, and is the originator of 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests.[16]

Scientific research

In 1984, Liu entered the Department of Physics of Peking University in Beijing and got the M.S. in optics from there; he also served as a teaching assistant in physcis at there .[17] After graduated, he took office in China Soft Science Research Institute, who acted as the assistant director of Graduate School of University of Science and Technology of China. In 1988, he became an assistant researcher and associate researcher, who specialized and tested the resistant materials, at Wear-resistant Materials Development Company of National Ministry of Higher Education & Dalian Institute of Technology.[18] Before Liu exiled to the United States, the Chinese Government once arranged him entered the Department of Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences as a researcher intentionally.

Since 2011, Liu had been involved in a bitter divorce with his former wife, the judge presided the case had declared him mentally unstable, and appointed a custodian guardian to represent him against his wish; among Liu's accusations: his wife was a spy sent by Chinese Communist central committee to monitor him, and his ex-employer Morgan Stanley fired him to appease Chinese government.[19]

References

  1. ^ "From China's Prisons To Columbia's Computers". Columbia University. Retrieved May 5, 1996. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  2. ^ "Tiananmen's Most Wanted". New York Times. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
  3. ^ "Guilt by Association: More Documents from the Chinese Trials. News from Asia Watch. P.2" (PDF). News from Asia Watch. Retrieved July 25, 1991. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  4. ^ "China Arrests Another Student Leader". New York Times. Retrieved June 21, 1989. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  5. ^ "Democracy Leader on Trial in China". New York Times. Retrieved January 24, 1991. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  6. ^ "China Tries Another Student for Protests". New York Times. Retrieved February 7, 1991. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  7. ^ "Imprisoned China Pro-Democrats Charge Torture". New York Times. Retrieved September 1, 1992. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  8. ^ "A Gentler China: A special report.; 4 Years After Tiananmen, The Hard Line is Cracking". New York Times. Retrieved June 1, 1993. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  9. ^ "Chinese Government Shows Video Of 4 Prisoners Mentioned by U.S." New York Times. Retrieved March 2, 1994. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  10. ^ "Chinese Said to Detain Dissidents as Parley Nears". New York Times. Retrieved August 10, 1995. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  11. ^ "Chinese Take Journalists on Guided Tour of Prison". New York Times. Retrieved March 6, 1994. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  12. ^ "World News Briefs; China Releases Dissident After 6 Years in Prison". New York Times. Retrieved June 19, 1995. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  13. ^ "A Top Dissident Flees China And Is Admitted to the U.S." New York Times. Retrieved May 4, 1996. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  14. ^ "Chinese Exiles Wonder How Wind Will Blow". New York Times. Retrieved February 21, 1997. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  15. ^ "Liu Gang". Committee of Concerned Scientists. Retrieved October 3, 1997. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  16. ^ "Torment of Tiananmen". New York Post. Retrieved August 7, 2011.
  17. ^ "Introduce of the China's 21 "Most Wanted" following Tiananmen Square Massacre". China Daily Mail. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
  18. ^ "1989 Tiananmen Chronicle(Chinese)1989天安门纪事". China Jasmine Action Blog. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
  19. ^ "Torment of Tiananmen". New York Post. Retrieved August 7, 2011.

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